Yppe

Dizionario Anglo-Sassone Inglese Antico di Bosworth & Toller - yppe

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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f. A raised place, (1) a look-out place :-- Yppe vel weardsteal spectacula, Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 35. (2) a stage, platform :-- Glígmanna yppe orcestra vel pulpitus, Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 36. (3) a dais, the raised floor in a hall. Cf. Icel. pallr for this sense :-- Eode æþeling (Beowulf) tó yppan, ðǽr se óþer wæs, Hróðgár grétte, Beo. Th. 3634; B. 1815. (4) the upper part of a house, an upper chamber :-- Yppe (Ep. Gl. uppae) in aestivo caenaculo, ubi per aestatem frigus captant, Txts. 70, 553. Hié ealle on yppan wunedon (cf. in coenaculum ascenderunt ubi manebant, Acts 1, 13), Blickl. Homl. 133, 26. yppe
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